• We developed national RAP partnerships with organisations who invited us to work
alongside them in their missions to close the gap in education (year 12 completion
and university enrolment), employment, incarceration rates, and health including:
• Reconciliation Australia and Recognise, the campaign for Constitutional
Recognition of First Australians
• The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE)
• AIME
• Yalari
• CareerTrackers
• Whitelion.
• We seconded a member of the NCIE’s leadership team into Lendlease for 12
months to build Indigenous engagement capacity in Lendlease’s Diversity &
Inclusion team.
• We seconded senior manager Melissa Haigh into CareerTrackers for eight
months in 2013/14 to assist the organisation at a critical time in its growth
strategy. Melissa was awarded the Lendlease Australia Vision & Values Employee
Excellence Award for her commitment to CareerTrackers.
• Similarly, we seconded a CareerTrackers student advisor into Lendlease for three
months to build greater understanding of the HR and Learning & Development
systems and processes between the organisations.
• Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin joined Lendlease as RAP Ambassadors,
specifically to work with employees on a strategy to make Lendlease a culturally safe
and healthy place to work; and to raise awareness of the campaign for Constitutional
Recognition of Australia’s First People in their capacity as Recognise Ambassadors.
• Our RAP Executive Lead Cath Brokenborough plays a facilitation role between
the steering committee, funders and Bourke Aboriginal Community leadership for
Bourke’s Maranguka Justice Reinvestment project.
• Lendlease Foundation’s Community Day (an annual day of employee volunteering)
has taken place in Aboriginal communities and organisations in Sydney
(Redfern, La Perouse, Glebe), Bourke, NSW North Coast, and the Hunter Valley.
Additionally, its Springboard employee development program spent four years
building relationships with the community in Mossman, North Queensland, where
Lendlease employees from all over the world had the opportunity to learn more
about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture.
• We became a founding member of Supply Nation in 2010.
• We have worked with Indigenous owned businesses including Gilimbaa, David
Liddiard Group, Message Stick, Kallico Catering, Buri Design & Building, Carey
Mining, Euraba Civil, and Indigi Asbestos Removal, all of whom have guided us to
improve our approach to procurement with Indigenous business.
• Lendlease site engineer Nick Pritchett was awarded Lendlease 2013 Employee
Excellence Award for Diversity & Inclusion for his mentoring of Indigi Asbestos
Removal in its first training and operations experience at Barangaroo South.
• Lendlease Property’s Head of Procurement, Shasi CSP, was a finalist in the Supply
Nation Supplier Diversity Advocate Award.
• Indigenous Procurement Guidelines have been specified in the Australian
Property Business Procurement Policy and in the procurement guidelines for
International Towers Sydney at Barangaroo South.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
• We have been invited to develop relationships with the Aboriginal communities of
Bourke in Western NSW and Cape York in far north Queensland to support their
local decision making about economic development opportunities that come with
local infrastructure and housing development projects.
• We have supported Whitelion’s case manager in Western Sydney working to
develop relationships with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
at risk and in the juvenile justice system, assisting them with training, life skills
development, employment and housing.
• Various projects and business units have developed locally-based relationships with
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and individuals, for example:
Bendigo Hospital project and Dja Dja Warrung; Jezzine Barracks project and
traditional owners of Townsville; Yarrabilba project and Gold Coast Native Title
Group; Barangaroo South and the La Perouse and Redfern-Waterloo communities;
Victoria Harbour project and the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne.
PARTNERSHIPS
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